INFOS

How does one become a man? For the Xhosas, this involves an initiation rite which sends young boys up into the mountains for around three months, during which circumcision will be practiced. On their return, they are men. That is to say, capable of providing for themselves and supporting a family. Is this enough? Not so sure. Especially in today’s society, where definitions are blurred, where recognition of a group dissolves into the urban fabric. With extraordinarily well worked movements, suspended, elastic, all stretched out with sudden bursts coming together, Yuhl Headman explores this internal flaw which torments him, this doubt represented despite the discourse of tradition. This solo which combines the future with the past and the present at all times, seamlessly melding the inventiveness of an individual’s dance with the repetition of an ancestral form, proposes a universal reflection on existential feeling.